[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: John Francini <francini at mac.com>
" 
" As another poster wrote, no, the drives advertised are Atlas IVs, 
" which are Quantum designs derived directly from DEC designs.
" 
" They work. Well.

this bears out my observation that if you want quality drives, look to
computer makers; as consumers of their own products they have much
higher awareness of quality than vendors with no use for them.

hitachi makes computers, and bought ibm's disk line

seagate's higher end traces its ancestry back to cdc
i believe they absorbed the design team too.

anyone else?

i wonder if the dec disk folks went to quantum and now maxtor?  that
would be an indication of future quality.
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